The racist, sexist, heterosexist, and anti atheist decision of the Sundance Festival to stay in the Hate State of Utah is truly disturbing. The people that run the festival are perfectly aware of the fact that there is no way to hold a major event in Utah without financing the Mormon Church's multitude of crusades to promote discrimination and violence against people they hate.

For years, the Sundance Festival and Channel have economically exploited lgbt film lovers. Yet, they see no reason to pay the queer community back by getting out of Utah. That one sided and abusive relationship must come to an end. Queers need to boycott the Sundance Festival and block the Sundance Channel until the festival is taken out of the Mormon theocracy of Utah.

The fightback should not be limited to Sundance. The Marriott Hotel chain is trying to distance itself from the bigotry of its upper management and its major Mormon shareholders. Yet, these people give shitloads of money to a white supremacist, misogynist, homophobic, and anti atheist hate group: the Mormon Church.

There is no way to stay in a Marriott Hotel without financing bigotry and oppression against a variety of minority groups. The same is equally true about traveling to Utah. Those facts may make people uncomfortable, but facts don't stop being facts because some people don't want to face them.

Many who oppose these boycotts are too emotionally attached to their stereotype of gay and bisexual men as weak and helpless, completely unwilling to defend ourselves from our oppressors. The opponents of the boycott will just have to get over it.

Do you really think it's realistic for a company to uproot itself (Sundance) in this time of economic turmoil? Even if it were, it couldn't be done overnight. I'm all for boycotting, but it seems a little absurd to say that they support bigotry cuz they're not leaving. No company can just up and leave. Corporations and companies are headquartered/registered in a certain area; and are bound by contracts which keep them there.

anythingbutsad: It would be trivial for Sundance to move the festival. In the current recession, there are plenty of other places with plenty of movie screens that could easily accommodate them. Bigotry is the real reason why Sundance isn't moving.

I think we have a blog up with a couple of very special vlogs y'all might want to share with your readers. One of our contributors, Chloe made the vlog - underneath it is one of the best rants out there, by a DUDE who cares about the over riding issues - seperation of Church and state and the hate peddled by the LDS and others.

I am fired up - in 40 yrs of activism for the lgbT cause i have never seen as much support from our allies outside the community..